The army and the people fought together
An hour after the Flying Tiger Army marched, hundreds of landing ships of the Han Army and the Navy had gathered on the river beach thirty miles upstream of the Jiangling Water Village, and there were also a lot of large fishing boats, the landing ships named Breaking Waves could carry 50 soldiers per boat, compared with the main battleships of the Flying Tiger Army, the Sea Dragon and the Proud Dragon Breaking Waves, the focus was on speed and stability, so its design features were also different from the former, and many hull parts were wrapped in tight leather. {We don't write novels, we're just online word porters - while the concept of kayaking was not realized due to technical limitations, the baking of leather was greatly improved.}
As for those fishing boats, Zhang Yan, the commander of the Yellow Shirt Army, asked Tian Yu for them in the logistics camp that day, and there were fifty people in the full load, and their appearance and characteristics were very similar to Breaking Waves, which were also the predecessors of Breaking Waves before. The state and county governments near the river will lease them to the fishermen along the river to prepare for production! After winning the battle with Cao Cao, Liu Yi's focus was no longer just on the war, and death gradually shifted to production, a prosperous civilization was not enough to have strong force, it could only be used for a while instead of a thousand years of inheritance as he thought.
At this time, the sea dragon ships in the river near the river bank are constantly sailing out, they are all moored in the inland river, the original lake was called Sangbo, and later was favored by the Flying Tiger Army as the location of the Tibetan soldiers, and after several river widening, so that heavy ships such as the sea dragon can also pass freely, the battle is mainly used as a landing ship mooring, surrounded by heavy guards!
After more than ten sea dragon ships were sailed out, there were four dragon ships, on which were the second battalion of the Vermilion Bird White Tiger among the elite old four battalions of the Han army, and the tides and rivers in Liu Langpu and Yubeipu were extremely suitable for landing, which the Han army could see that the Jingnan Army would use as the focus of defense! Originally, it was supposed to be unprepared to attack the enemy, but Liu Yi and all the military divisions still chose the breakthrough point here after comprehensive consideration, and they relied on the strong offensive ability and advanced technology of the Han army, the sky-bombarding cannon of the Vermilion Bird Battalion, and the cloud-piercing arrows of the White Tiger Battalion can break through the defense of any enemy army.
"Second Tiger, you must not fall behind the Xuanwu Army when your battalion takes the lead, otherwise it doesn't matter if my Longxiang Army is crushed by the old fourth battalion, think about what the Tiger Guard will say. Besides, both of you were the first to follow Majesty, and it looks like Majesty is still a little more than eighteen. On the high ground of the river beach, Xu Huang looked at the Xuanwu Army with a neat lineup on the other side, and then retracted his eyes and said to Wang Erhu beside him, this time it is the first battalion of the Long Xiang Army that is the main attacker!
"General rest assured, the second tiger will never embarrass the Long Xiang army, and the eighteenth kid has always been lucky." Wang Erhu puffed up his chest and said, although he didn't have too many bold words, but his eyes were extremely firm, and when he said Zhang Shiba, he was a little uneven, I am afraid that Xu Huang does not know much here, in fact, when you ah Wang Erhu also made up his mind to go back to find the general, but he hid not as skillfully as Zhang Shiba, but was seen by Gan Ning and slipped away, and later knew that Zhang Shibai and Liu Yidu's experience of Bocai's 50,000 army He regretted it very much, and he should have had his own.
"Okay, it's up to you, Your Majesty said that he would sit in Nanjun City in five days." Xu Huang punched Wang Erhu's chest hard, dropped a sentence, and turned around to inspect the ship in front.
"Your Majesty has never been able to do what you have said." Wang Erhu was loud, and waited for Xu Huang to leave before turning around and saying to the generals: "Did you hear General Xu's words?" If you can't take the beachhead this time, Lao Tzu will never come, and you don't want to come back one by one! "Just like the major generals competing in front of Liu Yi, Wang Erhu's task of grabbing this main attack is also hard-won, relying on unparalleled qualifications and even more on his outstanding military exploits, the first battalion of the Longxiang Army is also an undefeated division.
"No! There is no advance or retreat in this battle! The soldiers of the first battalion shouted in unison when they heard this, and at this time there was full confidence and faint excitement on their faces, but there was absolutely no nervousness, these veterans of a hundred battles had already fought well, and the more they came to the battle, the more they would relax and adjust.
"The old man is in good health, I came to help Xu this time, and I thank you." Xu Huang slowly walked to the vicinity of the fishing boats, all the boatmen were also ready, and when they saw the general coming, they all stood straight, and one of the old men was still extremely strong although his beard was white, and his complexion had become bronzed due to the perennial wind and sun, Xu Huang said when he saw this.
"Don't dare to accept the general's gift, we will receive His Majesty's kindness, this time we will fight to the death, the general rest assured, the boatmen here are all carefully selected by the counties, we will definitely not be slower than the brothers who break the waves." Seeing this, the old man hurriedly turned sideways and spoke, and there was a sound of gold and stone in his words.
These fishing villages in Linjiang have been rented fishing boats in the hands of the county government, including all kinds of fishing gear that have been transformed from equipment, and the rent is very low, and even free to use in the first year, which makes their harvest greatly increased, and the prosperity of Han commerce has also made their fish sales very good, so their lives have improved greatly in the past few years, how can you not be grateful to Dade?
This old man's name is Dai Jun, a local, he is sixty and nine this year, and he is begging for a life on the Yangtze River all year round, and the greatest glory in this life for him is to be able to say a few words to the Son of Heaven! Liu Yi's martial arts should be left to future generations to decide, but one thing can be determined now, he is definitely the most people-friendly emperor, and this time he came to Xiangyang is no exception.
Thinking of sitting next to the old ship with the Son of Heaven that day, Dai Jun still looks like a dream in retrospect today, the power of the Son of Heaven is undoubted, but when he talks to himself, he is so cordial, and now the old boat that Liu Yi sat on in the village has been spontaneously built by the people to build a temple and seal it, and it will become the greatest pride of the people in the village.
"The old man should be strong and strong, and he can serve the country wholeheartedly, after winning this battle, Xu will personally ask for credit for the old man in front of His Majesty." Xu Huang said with a heavy chin, seeing this white-haired old man and those majestic and sturdy boatmen, the more he could understand the significance of the people's war that Liu Yi talked about at the training class for senior generals of the Youzhou Martial Academy, and the people were indeed the greatest help.
"General, general, the warship of General Zhang of the Flying Tiger Army is here." At this time, a small colonel rushed over and said, Xu Huang looked back, and sure enough, the majestic fleet of the Flying Tiger Army came downstream, he knew that Zhang Ping's coming meant that Xuanlang's navy had suppressed the Jingnan army, and it was up to them next, and after a little greeting to Dai Jun, Xu Huang also came to the beachhead to greet Zhang Ping.
When Xu Huang came to the beachhead, he had already put down a clipper in the fleet, and approached the shore at a very fast speed, and a person wearing a captain's uniform came down from it, and the river on the shore rushed to Xu Huang's side: "Tell General Xu, I, General Xuan of the Flying Tiger Army, have led my troops to launch a general attack on the Jingnan Naval Army, and I will not let a boat come over, and General Zhang Ping's four escort fleets of Wuji Gengxin have all been in place, and I will send a lowly post to follow the general's orders, and I can escort the crossing of the river!" ”
"Okay, pass on my military order, the landing soldiers of the Xuanwu Army of the Longxiang Army will board the ship immediately, please go back and tell General Zhang, and immediately cooperate with the escort formation!" Xu Huang said in a loud voice, and when the captain heard a military salute, he rushed away again, and when he arrived on the ship, Zhang Ping's fleet also acted immediately.
"Brothers, this time I will cross the river, my Longxiang army should be the first to take Liu Langpu, and when the time comes, the title of the first strongest army of the Han army will also be snatched from the Tiger Guard Army and get on the boat!" After Wang Erhu received the order, he raised his arms and shouted, and the soldiers of the first battalion of the Longxiang Army under his command also responded one after another and boarded the ship immediately!
"My Xuanwu Army is one of the first to follow His Majesty's four battalions, in the past ten years, I have watched the Longxiang Tiger Guard Iron Cavalry Battalion in the limelight, this time it is not easy to fight for the pioneer responsibility of the beach, either today to win the light merit of the three armies of Yubellypu, or they all die on the beachhead to pave the way for the next brothers, this battle has no retreat, board!" Pei Yuanshao also shouted when he saw the sound of the arrow. A kind of soldier of the Xuanwu Army also shouted, there is no advance or retreat, and they have boarded the warship one after another!
"Do you know what His Majesty asked me and Commander Zhou the day before yesterday? Your Vermilion Bird Battalion and White Tiger Battalion land battles and sieges are all coaxed by cattle, but when you get to the water, you don't know how, I and Commander Zhou didn't speak, saying that there is a fart, the battle is made by fighting, how about a smaller hull? What about the rolling waves? It's rare to live in our old fourth camp? There is only one sentence today, smash all the defenses of the Jingnan Army, and let them see the power of my Vermilion Bird White Tiger Second Battalion, so that they can answer His Majesty. On the Proud Dragon ship, Li Tieniu, who was only wearing a vest, shouted at the top of his voice, and the soldiers below were even more surging in emotion.
"Later generations, His Majesty said that we will be rewarded for our military merits when we assist the army in combat, and His Majesty is Chrysostom never fails, and even if we have no military merits, we should repay His Majesty's kindness, and after a while, everyone will take out the strength of milk, and our fishing boats cannot be slower than the brothers' breaking waves." Dai Jun in the shipwrights team was also speaking loudly to all his companions......
With Xu Huang's order, the neat warship formation on the riverside in the thousand kings only worked hard to row the oars, facing the rushing river and the splashing waves to the opposite shore at high speed, all the boatmen and soldiers have done their best, taking the beachhead to establish the credit is the idea in everyone's heart at this time, for a time under the blue sky hundreds of boats compete for the current, compared to the momentum of the two sides of the downstream naval army is also not allowed at all. And more than ten miles behind them, tens of thousands of elites of the Yellow Shirt Army, the Feiyan Army, and the Flame Army were already ready to go, and once the horn of attack came from the front, it was the moment for them to attack, and every soldier also raised their ears and listened quietly.